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Angelo Restivo was a member of the Board from 2011-2014. This bio is for archival purposes only and may be out of date.

Biography: Angelo Restivo is Associate Professor and Area Director in the Program for Moving Image Studies, Department of Communication, Georgia State University. He received his Ph.D. in Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-TV at the University of Southern California in 1997.

Ph.D. Critical Studies. School of Cinema-TV. USC. 1997M.A. English. The Program for Writers. University of Illinois Chicago. 1982B.A. Humanities. University of ChicagoResearch and Teaching interests: Postwar international cinemas; aesthetic theory; cinema, space, and (post-)modernization.

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Books:

The Cinema of Economic Miracles: Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film. Duke UP, 2002.

Articles:

His articles have appeared in numerous collections, most recently in Antonioni: Centenary Essays (Palgrave 2011), Companion to Alfred Hitchcock (Blackwell 2011), and Global Art Cinema (Oxford 2010). His coauthored work on gay porn (with Richard Cante) has appeared in More Dirty Looks(BFI 2004) and Porn Studies (Duke 2004). He has published in many journals, including Film Quarterly and Quarterly Review of Film and Video.